We can't just pass this debt onto our children - not when we have the ability to pay it off.

But I'm going to hold onto my children.

Numerous studies have concluded, for example, that mothers with high lead levels in their blood, however they were exposed, can pass problems onto their children.

"You need to ask yourself how a whole layer of parents could choose to inflict the misery they suffered onto their own children".

"I am so nervous about this race," said Moen, 38, who has passed her red hair onto her children.

On one hand, we have mountains of debt piled onto our children and grandchildren.

"There are so many yuppie families like us who want to project their own image onto their children," she said.

And 1.3 million pregnant women not passing the virus onto their children.

The act is supposed to symbolize mothers pouring their love, hope and care onto their children.

Each successive generation found it harder to hold onto its own children!